Quotes About Philosophy

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

On every parable you ride to every truth.

He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth.

My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.

The words of truth are always paradoxical. To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.

The truth is rarely true and never simple.

The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.

Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.

There is but one indefectibly certain truth , and that is the truth that pyrrhonistic scepticism itself leaves standing, the truth that the present phenomenon of consciousness exists.

Lacking the truth, [we] will however finds instants of truth, and these instants are in fact all we have available to us to give some order to this chaos of horror.

Will our Philosophy to later Life Seem but a crudeness of the planet's youth, Our Wisdom but a parasite of Truth?

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

Truth resists simplicity.

Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and accepts a great many more truths than he demonstrates.